Saturday, January 4, 2025

Out Like A Lion

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Out Like a Lion


Jules Campbell, a retired political scientist, fears another Trump presidency. The stark parallels between the lead up to Nazi Germany and the present-day political climate are all too obvious to any student of history. Having watched in dismay the first Trump administration, the COVID epidemic, and the attack on the Capitol, Jules is pushed over the edge when Putin invades Ukraine and Trump announces another run. Tired of waiting for a savior, Jules makes a plan. He will see the Oval Office over her dead body.


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Friday, January 3, 2025

A World With No Answer: Persona

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A World With No Answer: Persona


It was only supposed to be a week, but one turned into two, and two into a month. The Portal Scuti has ushered humanity into a new generation of video games and virtual reality, as a tournament created for fun and challenges decends into infamy for the many grotesque acts. When there is a moment it’s hard to breathe, you are reminded that you are in A World With No Answer.

Follow Amos and Zero as they are stuck in a tournament where death is real. After ruining their image, they learn quickly that their past actions have consequences. So fear We Are Lords and prostrate yourself to them in their profane nature because only God knows if It’s a persona.





Thursday, January 2, 2025

Yakuza and the Underworld

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Someone said to me," In the Japanese sense, it's not about morality or injustice, it's about face and honor." I'll give you an example of that. That's Yakuza. It can be said that it is cancer in Japan. Police officers call Yakuza Bouryokudan (violence groups), but Yakuza members often call themselves “Gokudou” (Adelstein: Tokyo Vice, p. 3), which means the ultimate path. First, I will write about the background and history of Yakuza. After that, I will introduce various crimes committed by Yakuza. These include sexual slavery, prostitution, drugs, gun smuggling, and more. Then we will talk about the most important organizations of Yakuza. Japan's most important groups are Yamaguchi-gumi, Sumiyoshi-Rengou, Inagawa-kai and Tou-A-kai. Finally, I will describe recent events. I interviewed Jake Adelstein and a government official at the Japanese National Police Agency about the important content of this study. Adelstein is a former Yomiuri Newspaper reporter and a Yakuza expert.


 
 



Wednesday, January 1, 2025

A Box of Frogs: A Highclere Inn & Carriage House Mystery

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An electric fence, a beautiful cryptic box, and the wildest goose chase this side of Muskoka.
The Valentines’ world is about to be zapped with a bolt of mayhem and mystery! When centenarian Senator Miles “The Tank” Valentine meets an electrifying end at his own resort, Highclere Inn & Carriage House, the shocks are just beginning. The arrival of a mystery box, posthumously sent by the Senator’s long-deceased first wife, Lady Jean Valentine, sets off a series of comical calamities and dramatic conspiracies that touch everyone from Highclere’s aging quirky guests to its staff and neighbors. Enter the Senator's grandson, the self-described “fabulous” Mason Valentine, and his investigative journalist cousin, Cordelia “Cici” Bradshaw, tasked with unraveling a web of family intrigue thicker than a lake effect fog. Witty banter flies faster than a loon’s call as “A Box of Frogs” bounds from page to page, oscillating between outrageous humor, a twisty-turny mystery, quiet ruminations, gripping suspense, and a cast that's—as Lady Valentine herself would say—crazier than a box of frogs. This is one amusing, insightful, and unexpected caper where solving the puzzle could mean finding more than what you bargained for. As Mason and Cici will soon find out, sometimes the biggest mysteries in life don’t fit neatly inside a box.